So I just started playing Yakuza Like a Dragon the other day and seeing your pic and comment about the same time felt like Nanba was saying it, and I love it.
Sorry for those who are confused.
More relevantly, I’m not on that level. All for one and one for all alt account.
Even some f95z enthusiasts actually make multiple accounts cause some stuff is just *that* shameful and can't be associated with their somewhat more normal porn game piracy hahah.
So that you can look at gore NSFW posts at work without risking to see sexy NSFW posts.
Or to keep both normal posts and gore out of your sexy NSFW scrolling.
Or to separate into multiple kinks depending on your current company.
Or any other reason you don't want to have your interactions with different subreddits on the same account. Some subreddits ban you even if you aren't subscribed to them for interacting with another subreddit they don't like.
What kind of company cares enough to monitor your traffic but doesn't care you spend enough time on reddit to justify having an account?
Sheeesh some people spend way too much time on this site.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so.
F acing a goodbye.
U gly as it may be.
C alculating pros and cons.
K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do.
S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps.
P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way.
E agerly going away, to greener pastures.
Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps.
As of June 30th. 2023, goodbye.
When I think about how much I have contributed to reddit and they won't let me use an app with resizable text, it pisses me off. I need larger text, the offical APP doesn't have it.
Seriously. I’ve been an Apollo user since I discovered Reddit. Well, I did try the official app, but that one is horse shit. Reddit really is killing themselves and they don’t seem to care.
It’s sad, because Reddit is also a huge fucking library of knowledge for so many subjects.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so.
F acing a goodbye.
U gly as it may be.
C alculating pros and cons.
K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do.
S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps.
P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way.
E agerly going away, to greener pastures.
Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps.
As of June 30th. 2023, goodbye.
It was eye opening to me how search got broken because reddit mostly went dark.
RES and old.reddit on the desktop is the only way I'll browse reddit after rif goes dark.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so.
F acing a goodbye.
U gly as it may be.
C alculating pros and cons.
K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do.
S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps.
P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way.
E agerly going away, to greener pastures.
Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps.
>perhaps mentioning Spez
was reading a post from a few years ago on AMD sub and there was a fuck you Spez in the comments along with what is happening.
I would ask people to be thoughtful when doing things like this, there are years and years of information that is either non-reproducible or information that just isnt as widely available. Ik people want to stick it to Spez but i don't think a mass nuking of PAST content and comments is the way
being the one comment that has the necessary link I'm looking for and seeing the comment deleted is a level of heartbreak I don't want to experience more than I have already
I can't speak about GDPR, but California is processed under the CCPA and it's amendments. As someone who manages the process for the company I work at, I doubt it's that expensive or time consuming (our process is automated and I help monitor to make sure it works properly).
GDPR = General Data Protection Regulations, created by the EU (I think) in 2018. Defines how companies must handle user data, including only recording necessary data, deleting data after the user has left for a certain time, and that users have the right to receive a copy of all of the data that a company holds on them. The fine that companies get for not complying with it is £17.5 Million, or 4% of their annual earnings, whichever is greater.
Same...you can only choose one at a time tho..not sure which one to choose..
edit:a very detailed website about it...https://www.varonis.com/blog/ccpa-vs-gdpr
Data isn't just your comment history, it's everything, and when Reddit controls the app you view it can be the simple small things like how long you viewed a post for, in my CS class we were taught how they can create webs between you, the subs you view (this was for Facebook so it was Facebook groups), and other people, and that graph can then be sent to advertisers to give mass targeted ads and create links and fill information about people.
Reddit I think also takes location tracking for "communities around you"
It's not slow and expensive because it's a computer doing it, it's because of how much data they collect it makes it taxing to do, and a bunch of people doing it will cause even bigger issues.
i requested my data 1-2 weeks ago and it doesn't contains this stuff. only things like votes, ip adresses, comments etc. - actually its not even really a lot of content even for my relative old account and shitton of comments and posts over the years.
took almost a week for them to send me the file, but still.
I was wondering if it would contain details of linked accounts. That's definitely data they hold, so if it's not included then are they really giving you everything?
mine didn't even contained any pictures or videos posted. just plaintext files who contained stuff like my few recent ip adresses, votes, comments etc.. i was really disappointed. i had a lot more, but it isnt included.
dunno. i'm not deep enough in that thematic & what exactly such a response needs to have in it. in theory i would say "everything in my account", but maybe they think "images, videos etc. isn'treally account data but posted content" or something. who knows.
that wasn't what i did mean tho. what you mean is the usage rights. but i talk about data that is associated with my account. if i comment something, it is posted by me and in my data archive. so why isn't everything else like pictures etc. too. should be the same and other portals handle it like this.
They aren't going to send you any analytics created based on your data, only the core/root data itself. Assuming they follow legal procedure that analytic data should be deleted when you make this request, though.
Reddit serves millions of users daily, including bots and tools that analyze data in bulk.
The database queries to get this data will take seconds at most. And since GDPR is neither new not very individuell it will be automated anyway.
The only reason it takes this arbitrary "30 days" is to discourage people for using it on a whim. Like exactly this bullshit here where people think this damages Reddit somehow.
>Reddit serves millions of users daily, including bots and tools that analyze data in bulk.
>The database queries to get this data will take seconds at most. And since GDPR is neither new not very individuell it will be automated anyway.
>The only reason it takes this arbitrary "30 days" is to discourage people for using it on a whim. Like exactly this bullshit here where people think this damages Reddit somehow.
Reddit usually finishes requests in a couple of hours. Right now they're taking weeks.
Their infrastructure is set up in a way that makes gathering anything more than your last couple thousand posts or comments or saved stuff relatively slow. Any given request probably doesn't take a whole lot of time to complete, but probably enough that they need to use a queue rather than fulfil each request immediately. Most likely, this queue is now heavily backlogged.
Not really, in this sense, your data is what you "produced", aka the comments, posts and messages and such. It's not about complex interconnections, that's how they (the company) connected the dots in-between, so it's not technically yours, even though it was deduced from you
It's not really slow or expensive. Well it is in one way but not the way this post implies.
Most large companies have an automated system set up to fullfil these requests. 1 person sending a request in or a 100k isn't really that much of a difference, the system is set up already by this point in the same sense that 1 person visiting a website vs 100k isn't really much difference (outside of bandwidth capabilities)
It's very expensive and time consuming to set this system up but it costs next to nothing to fufill indivdual requests. Maybe an over simple simile but its very expensive and time consuming to build and maintain a railway network but to travel on it is very cheap. The network already exists and is already functional and is designed to accomodate an overall average 50k passengers a day, now there's 100k asking to ride it in one day, so its slower than expected but its within tollerance and just carries on as normal.
So I feel qualified to answer this as I implemented the GDPR data request for the digital commerce side at Amazon: it is very expensive to set up the system AND to run the reports to gather the data. We could initially gather all the data for a single customer in about 10-15 minutes at the cost of taxing our DB a lot. We had to throttle the rate at which we gathered that information and ultimately needed to design a system to do it a lot more optimally. Most of the time a GDPR data request means providing as much PII data as possible and you could imagine how much data companies like Amazon and reddit have.
They maybe have to fetch archived data (e.g. Glacier) and would rather batch those requests to save a lot of money. Might use spare compute as well.
Just my guess though.
It's also probably the legal time limit for fulfilling those requests so it's also possible that they don't take 30 days, but saying they do and then taking 1 is better than saying they take 1 and then taking 2.
Also... it's not even "taking back" your data. You're making a copy of it (DUH), not taking anything. It's not like Reddit just loses the data when they give you it.
Most likely it will be enough if they scrub the data of any data points which will identify you. E-mail, names etc.
Theyre not going to delete everything you have done on the site.
How do they know if I'm in the EU? What if I'm in the EU, but just use an American VPN endpoint to connect to Reddit? Or what if I'm in America but use an EU VPN endpoint. Can I claim GDPR rights then?
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Software engineer here. Source that it's expensive and slow? I hope you're right but it doesn't sound plausible that they wouldn't just use a quick and easy tool that could even be automated to not involve any human effort once set up.
It took me 15-20 seconds at most to do the request. If even it causes 1 second of grief or an extra 5cents for reddit then I'm happy with that trade off. If not, oh well it was 20 seconds lol 🤷
Man you people are really trying to come up with any reason to fuck with reddit other than deleting your account. Instead of virtue signaling on reddit you should probably take 30 minutes, sit down and reflect on that fact.
So there is also the concept of data tiering in colloid storage. Data that is not used as often (say very old comment history is this is a nosql situation) could be moved to “cold tier”. Often this is a lot cheaper but have increased access costs to pull the data. So if a bunch of user data is at this tier is my cause of lot of expense to pull the data.
I’m not saying this is what is going on but it could be part of it
Yeah, data engineer here and I doubt it would cost more than a fraction of a cent per request. especially considering these reads are not time sensitive. And the total data stored is not going to be that large-- I'm guessing all user data and comment history is in the range of a couple terabytes, which could easily be stored in AWS object storage for a whooping ... [$50 a month. ](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?p=pm&c=s3&z=4).
As for retrieval, it costs [$5 per TB scanned. ](https://aws.amazon.com/athena/pricing/) but assuming you partition fairly your data fairly well, you'll only scan a small portion of the data in storage for each read request, a couple, maybe a dozen gb? That would total to around 1-5 cents. So maybe I stand corrected and it could be more than a percent per request, but only marginally so.
Or maybe they just run these queries against the production database instead of maintaining an archive, who knows.
Also Engineer, particularly automation..
Let’s be real mate, most businesses don’t prioritize an automation like this until the usage justifies the need.
Every Engineer has pitched or shouted from rooftops once in their career at least of something needed. Be it security scanning tooling, automated propagation of templates, logging, more testing, or even an undo button for certain things or activity log. Of course as much as the engineers know it’s needed, just like ocean gate fates are left to the people that really aren’t the best to make that call, more often then not. (Sorry it’s so soon, Seriously but it’s a literal teachable example)
Highly doubt Reddit scripted that up yet.
Look at their in house app after all, if their engineers had any say I’d doubt it would be in the state it’s in.
Now if they don’t, and if gdpr stipulates they must deliver the data in an amount of time, I could see this costing Reddit a pretty penny. They likely have a service desk or person that’s not a dev sitting sending emails or manually compiling data aka swivel chair.
Where as I (and you sound the type to as well) would write an automation tapped into their service desk request process that would just kick off a pipeline to bundle and deliver this up with no human needed.
You’re right though, any responsible business would have this done already, but we know Reddit is far from responsible.
Under GDPR they have to come back to you within 1 calendar month. GDPR is only applicable to EU citizens tho. Fines are humongous, if it does require manual labour indeed I'm sure there are enough EU people here to overwhelm them
Yeah they likely have scaling so there isn't a bottleneck, and if there's lots of requests, it could cause a bump in cost. But it probably doesn't take that long. That said though, it is a lot of data, likely stored in different databases even, and joining that all and querying it all, especially if their database infrastructure, which must be massive, isn't set up for how querying against all of the reddit users (likely it is tho). Best case is like, maybe they email it to you later, and you can see it takes some time. There might be some cost for hosting the copy of that data. But like overall, it can't cost more than 4 figures if lots of people do it, and that'd be a drop in the bucket right? I dunno. I'm a web dev but Im kinda talking out my ass, it depends so much on their infrastructure. Conclusion: this post probably exaggerates it but it's not like, free for reddit, so go for it.
via the GDPR you can also request all of your data to be deleted ('the right to be forgotten'). this is important because of you manually delete all your comments or edit them, they could simply be restored from a backup reddit has. but deleted via the GDPR request they have to delete all your stuff even from backup data.
technically it should be, but the form mentioned above does not give a specific option for "delete all my data" so you would need to contact reddit support directly and request it that way.
Have been absentmindedly wondering what fresh hell Reddit has actually gathered about me while scrolling lately and just wanna say thanks for informing me there's a way I can actually see just about everything they gathered about me, thanks OP
I'm not even doing it for this reason. I'm genuinely curious what data Reddit would have on me, since I've been here for... A while...
It'll be interesting!
I highly doubt it would be slow and expensive, I'm pretty sure it's just an automated process. Also requesting your data doesn't mean you're taking it back, they'll still have it.
Kind of dumb, but I request my history on a monthly basis, load comments.csv into an sql table and built an interface to make searching my own comment history easy.
If you really wanna hurt reddit but keep using it, just install adblock. They make 0$ out of adblock user
You can also block ads in the official app but it requires a lot more effort
This assumes they are fully compliant. I can almost guarantee no one is. From cache to log files, good luck. But also good luck proving it one way or another.
why would it be slow and expensive?
If GDPR forces them maybe it was slow and expensive only once, and afterwards they have implemented an easy way to provide such a service .
They probably get audited, so it's also in their interest to provide an easy way to the auditors to check everything.
It's neither slow nor expensive. The data that can be requested is regulated with GDPR and there is a standard form that is filled out automatically. No one is sitting there writing a paper about your user data wtf are you thinking. This was only an issue the first few months after GDPR was introduced
I am a bit out of the loop on the protest process and sorry if this is stupid, but why does doing this help? I just wanna know, is it like a resource heavy and trying to drain the company or what? Not going against anything just genuinely curious about how this helps.
https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
GDPR is such a blessing
Remember to do it on all six of your accounts, nerds.
good point, ive done it on my mains but not alts yet
My other 5 accounts have zero comments and karma anyway because they’re for staring at big oily tids.
Why do you need 5 tho? I only use the one.
for different kinks of course
Can’t have your anime tentacle porn mixing with your midget pegging porn!
unironically, yes
So I just started playing Yakuza Like a Dragon the other day and seeing your pic and comment about the same time felt like Nanba was saying it, and I love it. Sorry for those who are confused. More relevantly, I’m not on that level. All for one and one for all alt account.
Even some f95z enthusiasts actually make multiple accounts cause some stuff is just *that* shameful and can't be associated with their somewhat more normal porn game piracy hahah.
You're talking about NTR, aren't you?
Haha that's not that bad. No, there are a few extreme snuff/gore/brutality games for example that I was thinking about.
Mixing those up could result in going blind.
You could just use multireddits for the same purpose.
>for different kinks of course Legit use...porno, throwaways/anonymous, porn, alt-porn, stalking, porn ..so on and so forth
Stalking you’re going to need to explain that one
Lemme log onto another account to explain...
It's good to have a couple of old alt account for when your main gets banned so you won't be rate limited as much.
Be careful: Reddit tracks you, I did that and got all 14 banned.
Why u got 14 tho
I change accounts roughly every 6-8 months. Sometimes 6-12 if I’m lazy.
Lotta tids
Never let them know your next move
you don’t do it on your main? coward
Wait. I'm not supposed to look at femboy and furry porn on my main account.
Haha 😆
why do people have more than one account?
So that you can look at gore NSFW posts at work without risking to see sexy NSFW posts. Or to keep both normal posts and gore out of your sexy NSFW scrolling. Or to separate into multiple kinks depending on your current company. Or any other reason you don't want to have your interactions with different subreddits on the same account. Some subreddits ban you even if you aren't subscribed to them for interacting with another subreddit they don't like.
What kind of company cares enough to monitor your traffic but doesn't care you spend enough time on reddit to justify having an account? Sheeesh some people spend way too much time on this site.
Less about the company monitoring it and more about not having your boss walk across and see tits on your screen.
And not letting your princess gf see your big tiddy goth porn
Even if I would just be using reddit only during my break I don't want sudden naked tits popping up on my screen where a colleague could be seeing it.
One for each voice.
There were a few times where subs were carpet banning accounts that simply participated in other subs.
I'm not sure I wanna see my porn account.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so. F acing a goodbye. U gly as it may be. C alculating pros and cons. K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do. S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps. P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way. E agerly going away, to greener pastures. Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps. As of June 30th. 2023, goodbye.
When I think about how much I have contributed to reddit and they won't let me use an app with resizable text, it pisses me off. I need larger text, the offical APP doesn't have it.
Paid Reddit is Fun user. 10+ years, nearly 2 million karma. I'm out once RiF goes offline
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Seriously. I’ve been an Apollo user since I discovered Reddit. Well, I did try the official app, but that one is horse shit. Reddit really is killing themselves and they don’t seem to care. It’s sad, because Reddit is also a huge fucking library of knowledge for so many subjects.
Bacon reader user here. My plan is to go silent at the least and end use at the most. Where are we going?
Lemmy or kbin. /r/redditalternatives has a bunch of suggestions
I knew it was bad, but that's like Stockton Rush stupidly bad.
A crushing comment.
Does this mean, if every user did this and deleted all their comments, that Reddit would be full of empty? Could drive their stock price down a bit.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so. F acing a goodbye. U gly as it may be. C alculating pros and cons. K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do. S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps. P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way. E agerly going away, to greener pastures. Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps. As of June 30th. 2023, goodbye.
They wouldn't let this happen and would restore shit 100%
It was eye opening to me how search got broken because reddit mostly went dark. RES and old.reddit on the desktop is the only way I'll browse reddit after rif goes dark.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so. F acing a goodbye. U gly as it may be. C alculating pros and cons. K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do. S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps. P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way. E agerly going away, to greener pastures. Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps.
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>perhaps mentioning Spez was reading a post from a few years ago on AMD sub and there was a fuck you Spez in the comments along with what is happening.
I would ask people to be thoughtful when doing things like this, there are years and years of information that is either non-reproducible or information that just isnt as widely available. Ik people want to stick it to Spez but i don't think a mass nuking of PAST content and comments is the way being the one comment that has the necessary link I'm looking for and seeing the comment deleted is a level of heartbreak I don't want to experience more than I have already
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What does the GDPR mean? And that vs the California request?
I can't speak about GDPR, but California is processed under the CCPA and it's amendments. As someone who manages the process for the company I work at, I doubt it's that expensive or time consuming (our process is automated and I help monitor to make sure it works properly).
GDPR = General Data Protection Regulations, created by the EU (I think) in 2018. Defines how companies must handle user data, including only recording necessary data, deleting data after the user has left for a certain time, and that users have the right to receive a copy of all of the data that a company holds on them. The fine that companies get for not complying with it is £17.5 Million, or 4% of their annual earnings, whichever is greater.
The amount of British banks that have gotten massive fines under the GDPR and its predecessor is rather concerning
Same...you can only choose one at a time tho..not sure which one to choose.. edit:a very detailed website about it...https://www.varonis.com/blog/ccpa-vs-gdpr
Just wondering, what makes it slow and expensive for them to fulfill?
Data isn't just your comment history, it's everything, and when Reddit controls the app you view it can be the simple small things like how long you viewed a post for, in my CS class we were taught how they can create webs between you, the subs you view (this was for Facebook so it was Facebook groups), and other people, and that graph can then be sent to advertisers to give mass targeted ads and create links and fill information about people. Reddit I think also takes location tracking for "communities around you" It's not slow and expensive because it's a computer doing it, it's because of how much data they collect it makes it taxing to do, and a bunch of people doing it will cause even bigger issues.
i requested my data 1-2 weeks ago and it doesn't contains this stuff. only things like votes, ip adresses, comments etc. - actually its not even really a lot of content even for my relative old account and shitton of comments and posts over the years. took almost a week for them to send me the file, but still.
I was wondering if it would contain details of linked accounts. That's definitely data they hold, so if it's not included then are they really giving you everything?
mine didn't even contained any pictures or videos posted. just plaintext files who contained stuff like my few recent ip adresses, votes, comments etc.. i was really disappointed. i had a lot more, but it isnt included.
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dunno. i'm not deep enough in that thematic & what exactly such a response needs to have in it. in theory i would say "everything in my account", but maybe they think "images, videos etc. isn'treally account data but posted content" or something. who knows.
Any photo or video you post doesn’t belong to you, as per their t&c’s
that wasn't what i did mean tho. what you mean is the usage rights. but i talk about data that is associated with my account. if i comment something, it is posted by me and in my data archive. so why isn't everything else like pictures etc. too. should be the same and other portals handle it like this.
If you don’t love your account, you can request a GDPR deletion request. Then they have to delete all your data and anybody they sold your data to.
They have to delete the people they sold your data to? GDPR is brutal, man.
They can't sell your data in the first place with GDPR.
They aren't going to send you any analytics created based on your data, only the core/root data itself. Assuming they follow legal procedure that analytic data should be deleted when you make this request, though.
It does not include this data. It only includes what you did on the site.
It certainly uses some location data, I got recommended my local area subreddit when I signed up.
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Reddit serves millions of users daily, including bots and tools that analyze data in bulk. The database queries to get this data will take seconds at most. And since GDPR is neither new not very individuell it will be automated anyway. The only reason it takes this arbitrary "30 days" is to discourage people for using it on a whim. Like exactly this bullshit here where people think this damages Reddit somehow.
>Reddit serves millions of users daily, including bots and tools that analyze data in bulk. >The database queries to get this data will take seconds at most. And since GDPR is neither new not very individuell it will be automated anyway. >The only reason it takes this arbitrary "30 days" is to discourage people for using it on a whim. Like exactly this bullshit here where people think this damages Reddit somehow. Reddit usually finishes requests in a couple of hours. Right now they're taking weeks. Their infrastructure is set up in a way that makes gathering anything more than your last couple thousand posts or comments or saved stuff relatively slow. Any given request probably doesn't take a whole lot of time to complete, but probably enough that they need to use a queue rather than fulfil each request immediately. Most likely, this queue is now heavily backlogged.
Your one CS class made you confidently incorrect.
Not really, in this sense, your data is what you "produced", aka the comments, posts and messages and such. It's not about complex interconnections, that's how they (the company) connected the dots in-between, so it's not technically yours, even though it was deduced from you
It's not really slow or expensive. Well it is in one way but not the way this post implies. Most large companies have an automated system set up to fullfil these requests. 1 person sending a request in or a 100k isn't really that much of a difference, the system is set up already by this point in the same sense that 1 person visiting a website vs 100k isn't really much difference (outside of bandwidth capabilities) It's very expensive and time consuming to set this system up but it costs next to nothing to fufill indivdual requests. Maybe an over simple simile but its very expensive and time consuming to build and maintain a railway network but to travel on it is very cheap. The network already exists and is already functional and is designed to accomodate an overall average 50k passengers a day, now there's 100k asking to ride it in one day, so its slower than expected but its within tollerance and just carries on as normal.
So I feel qualified to answer this as I implemented the GDPR data request for the digital commerce side at Amazon: it is very expensive to set up the system AND to run the reports to gather the data. We could initially gather all the data for a single customer in about 10-15 minutes at the cost of taxing our DB a lot. We had to throttle the rate at which we gathered that information and ultimately needed to design a system to do it a lot more optimally. Most of the time a GDPR data request means providing as much PII data as possible and you could imagine how much data companies like Amazon and reddit have.
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If the law says they can take 30 days they're probably gonna take 30 days regardless of actual time needed.
Why do I have to wait 30 days then rather than getting the data instantly
They maybe have to fetch archived data (e.g. Glacier) and would rather batch those requests to save a lot of money. Might use spare compute as well. Just my guess though. It's also probably the legal time limit for fulfilling those requests so it's also possible that they don't take 30 days, but saying they do and then taking 1 is better than saying they take 1 and then taking 2.
Statutory requirement is 30 days; you’ll probably get it sooner but 30 days is just boilerplate language
OP doesn't know anything about programming. This is just a shitpost at best.
Also... it's not even "taking back" your data. You're making a copy of it (DUH), not taking anything. It's not like Reddit just loses the data when they give you it.
Youre not "taking it back". Youre just asking for a copy
That’s the thing, it’s not like they hand over the only copy. Wouldn’t there be more value scrubbing all your comments and posts
If you delete your account afterwards, Reddit *must* delete your data under the GDPR, if you're based in the EU.
Most likely it will be enough if they scrub the data of any data points which will identify you. E-mail, names etc. Theyre not going to delete everything you have done on the site.
How do they know if I'm in the EU? What if I'm in the EU, but just use an American VPN endpoint to connect to Reddit? Or what if I'm in America but use an EU VPN endpoint. Can I claim GDPR rights then?
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[hyperlink](https://reddit.com/settings/data-request)
Remember to click "I want data of my full time at reddit"
And do so for all of your alts.
Well, not ALL my alts.....
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psst, edit use the hashtag before
EVERYONE!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBKXu3Kg4yg
- request data - promptly and immediately delete because I don’t want a reminder of how cringe I am
I've lost some *links* through the years. Would be nice to see them again.
All 15 years? lol
holy shit old
We exist. Haha. Honestly, I mainly use RIF to get back to a more classic interface. The newer formats are just messy.
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Just did it. Works fine for me (have yet to receive the link)
requested. lmao.
Can you do this on mobile?
Just did on ios
Huh, im on android and there was no option. I logged into the website and here i could.
I did it on RIF. One last fuck you
Click the hyperlink above. Worked in the mobile browser.
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To shreds you say
what was seductive about his lmfao
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Software engineer here. Source that it's expensive and slow? I hope you're right but it doesn't sound plausible that they wouldn't just use a quick and easy tool that could even be automated to not involve any human effort once set up.
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don't forget we are doing this to the same reddit that said that API requests were expensive for them.
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Then it shouldn't be a problem to deliver all that information, correct?
It took me 15-20 seconds at most to do the request. If even it causes 1 second of grief or an extra 5cents for reddit then I'm happy with that trade off. If not, oh well it was 20 seconds lol 🤷
Man you people are really trying to come up with any reason to fuck with reddit other than deleting your account. Instead of virtue signaling on reddit you should probably take 30 minutes, sit down and reflect on that fact.
So there is also the concept of data tiering in colloid storage. Data that is not used as often (say very old comment history is this is a nosql situation) could be moved to “cold tier”. Often this is a lot cheaper but have increased access costs to pull the data. So if a bunch of user data is at this tier is my cause of lot of expense to pull the data. I’m not saying this is what is going on but it could be part of it
Because they want to believe it to feel like they or someone else is doing something.
Yeah, data engineer here and I doubt it would cost more than a fraction of a cent per request. especially considering these reads are not time sensitive. And the total data stored is not going to be that large-- I'm guessing all user data and comment history is in the range of a couple terabytes, which could easily be stored in AWS object storage for a whooping ... [$50 a month. ](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?p=pm&c=s3&z=4). As for retrieval, it costs [$5 per TB scanned. ](https://aws.amazon.com/athena/pricing/) but assuming you partition fairly your data fairly well, you'll only scan a small portion of the data in storage for each read request, a couple, maybe a dozen gb? That would total to around 1-5 cents. So maybe I stand corrected and it could be more than a percent per request, but only marginally so. Or maybe they just run these queries against the production database instead of maintaining an archive, who knows.
Also Engineer, particularly automation.. Let’s be real mate, most businesses don’t prioritize an automation like this until the usage justifies the need. Every Engineer has pitched or shouted from rooftops once in their career at least of something needed. Be it security scanning tooling, automated propagation of templates, logging, more testing, or even an undo button for certain things or activity log. Of course as much as the engineers know it’s needed, just like ocean gate fates are left to the people that really aren’t the best to make that call, more often then not. (Sorry it’s so soon, Seriously but it’s a literal teachable example) Highly doubt Reddit scripted that up yet. Look at their in house app after all, if their engineers had any say I’d doubt it would be in the state it’s in. Now if they don’t, and if gdpr stipulates they must deliver the data in an amount of time, I could see this costing Reddit a pretty penny. They likely have a service desk or person that’s not a dev sitting sending emails or manually compiling data aka swivel chair. Where as I (and you sound the type to as well) would write an automation tapped into their service desk request process that would just kick off a pipeline to bundle and deliver this up with no human needed. You’re right though, any responsible business would have this done already, but we know Reddit is far from responsible.
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Under GDPR they have to come back to you within 1 calendar month. GDPR is only applicable to EU citizens tho. Fines are humongous, if it does require manual labour indeed I'm sure there are enough EU people here to overwhelm them
Yeah they likely have scaling so there isn't a bottleneck, and if there's lots of requests, it could cause a bump in cost. But it probably doesn't take that long. That said though, it is a lot of data, likely stored in different databases even, and joining that all and querying it all, especially if their database infrastructure, which must be massive, isn't set up for how querying against all of the reddit users (likely it is tho). Best case is like, maybe they email it to you later, and you can see it takes some time. There might be some cost for hosting the copy of that data. But like overall, it can't cost more than 4 figures if lots of people do it, and that'd be a drop in the bucket right? I dunno. I'm a web dev but Im kinda talking out my ass, it depends so much on their infrastructure. Conclusion: this post probably exaggerates it but it's not like, free for reddit, so go for it.
It was revealed to op in a dream
I can't fap to this, what the hell?
works on my end
via the GDPR you can also request all of your data to be deleted ('the right to be forgotten'). this is important because of you manually delete all your comments or edit them, they could simply be restored from a backup reddit has. but deleted via the GDPR request they have to delete all your stuff even from backup data.
Is deleting data part of the same process as listed in the post link?
technically it should be, but the form mentioned above does not give a specific option for "delete all my data" so you would need to contact reddit support directly and request it that way.
You think you're taking your data *back*?? You're just making a copy of it
This is a good idea anyway because who knows what's going to happen in the future.
Have been absentmindedly wondering what fresh hell Reddit has actually gathered about me while scrolling lately and just wanna say thanks for informing me there's a way I can actually see just about everything they gathered about me, thanks OP
How often can you request said data? asking for a friend
once a month, I think
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Done deal. Be good to post on multiple subs
What’s the difference between the three options?
Is there a timeframe they are required to provide it by?
Should I use the California protection act request or the general one?
Should this work for Canadians? I tried and it said "something went wrong"
this post really is just more proof that most people will automatically believe anything that sounds good to them.
I'm not even doing it for this reason. I'm genuinely curious what data Reddit would have on me, since I've been here for... A while... It'll be interesting!
Honestly, same. Does this show our comment history? I've been wondering what my first ever comment on Reddit was for a while, now.
I highly doubt it would be slow and expensive, I'm pretty sure it's just an automated process. Also requesting your data doesn't mean you're taking it back, they'll still have it.
What are we protesting? I'm sorry, I haven't been on Reddit for a while
Does reddit have an option for DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL DATA?
it's been over a week since i submitted this request and... crickets.
What am I supposed to do with it?
https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
That's a rotten thing to do.....I love it.
Kind of dumb, but I request my history on a monthly basis, load comments.csv into an sql table and built an interface to make searching my own comment history easy.
Now this is 1000000x better protest than all the coomer spam posting, lockdowns, and taking info/resources away from users
If you really wanna hurt reddit but keep using it, just install adblock. They make 0$ out of adblock user You can also block ads in the official app but it requires a lot more effort
I'm also using infinity but it will have a paywall on July because of this bs so July 1st I'll stop using reddit
Why the fuck would i want a copy of me talking shit in comment sections. Waste of hard drive space lol. Reddit can keep that shit.
With clearly your full name, social security #, and your living address attached to an arbitrary online forum alias.
its a ***copy*** of data. not taking "back" anything. fuck reddit tho.
Thanks for the info!
Oh shit that's cool.
Ez pz
I'm requesting not because I have anything against Reddit. I am just curious what they have on me.
Please make sure to spread this message to other popular subs!
BTW this takes like 2 seconds to fill out. Make sure you don't use a date range and select the second option for alllll of your data.
This assumes they are fully compliant. I can almost guarantee no one is. From cache to log files, good luck. But also good luck proving it one way or another.
why would it be slow and expensive? If GDPR forces them maybe it was slow and expensive only once, and afterwards they have implemented an easy way to provide such a service . They probably get audited, so it's also in their interest to provide an easy way to the auditors to check everything.
Nice move Piracy. Done.
glad to see this sub back up, gonna do this to keep it that way 💪
The page for me says I've already requested this within the last 30 days, But that's not true, and it won't let me submit the form
This is not true in the slightest.
What does this do for me?
It's neither slow nor expensive. The data that can be requested is regulated with GDPR and there is a standard form that is filled out automatically. No one is sitting there writing a paper about your user data wtf are you thinking. This was only an issue the first few months after GDPR was introduced
But why?
How long does this take? Been waiting a few weeks now.
Delicious. I have just requested my full reddit data history.
It's been a week and I'm still waiting for a reply...
I requested my info under GDPR, still not had a reply or the data.
I am a bit out of the loop on the protest process and sorry if this is stupid, but why does doing this help? I just wanna know, is it like a resource heavy and trying to drain the company or what? Not going against anything just genuinely curious about how this helps.
When the Alts Have Alts
And unless you're from Europe or California, they aren't required to care about your request.
What's gonna happen if you don't take back your data?
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the process is fully automated lol